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[–] arc@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The far left and far right are both bad. If in doubt, look at any country which has gone down either path.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's worth wondering how much fabric softener would cost someone over their adult lifetime as an exercise. Let's say 50 years of adulthood, and 12 bottles a year costing $10 each. That's six grand. For something that serves no functional purpose, makes towels less effective and has an environmental impact.

So yes it's a scam. If someone really needs to use fabric softener, at least buy a cheaper supermarket brand and use it sparingly.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stick to the showrooms and dealers. The victims in Las Vegas was just owners who brought their cars in to be fixed.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago

"I've never physically hurt anyone" says the guy who just dismantled USAID dooming tens if not hundreds of thousands of people to die through starvation, disease and conflict.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago

I do not believe for a second that communications within the Whitehouse are inadequate, or if they were, could not be solved in a secure manner. Slapping a Starlink in a few places sounds like an invitation to backdoor all communications. Not only that, it is an invitation to sidestep obligations to preserve government records.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I followed Abramson from 2016 for 3+ years and I was disillusioned because as time went on, his narrative didn't line up with reality. Yes Trump was and is a horrible piece of shit and much came out to confirm how much a piece of shit he was, e.g. Muller report, rape, fraud trials. But nothing like Abramson was saying. I believe that is because he was treating every rumor as fact and then expounding / extrapolating on it to heap another rumor (as fact) on top. Nobody should be doing this let alone a scholar who should know better - veracity matters.

And to repeat - I truly hope Musk is having a miserable shitty life. I really hope he goes nuts and checks into a funny farm or uses razor blades to test if he is living in a simulation as he has wondered occasionally. I just don't trust his "biographer" when he claims anything given his past record on such things.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I'm quite content with that outcome too. I'm just not holding out hope because of something Seth says.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Musk may well be going mad and I certainly hope he is. I hope his lack of recognition and watching his empire crumble is eating him up inside.

But Seth Abramson is not a reliable narrator let alone "biographer" whatever that means. He has a very long and storied history of embellishing facts, or placing too much weight on rumours and extrapolating way too much from them.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 90 points 3 months ago (5 children)

That must count as the most financially ruinous tweet ever. Serves Elon right for being a total prick.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Sometimes when I've torrenting from a public wifi I'll get a malicious .scr file - but since I torrent from an Android phone it can't do anything to me.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The stupid part is that Trump / Vance made themselves look like assholes. Zelensky was over to sign a deal and they threw him out for disagreeing with their dumb talking points. And far from making America "great", I expect that Canada, Europe, UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea etc has collectively decided that they need to reduce their dependence on America while these malignant narcissists are in charge.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tesla doesn't have that excuse. The original Roadster, Model S and Model X all had fairly conventional controls. They deliberately undermined the safety of their vehicles over time by aggressively removing physical controls in the model 3 and Y and revamped S. It probably saved them a few bucks, but at the cost increased risk to human life. If they get penalized in safety tests for their penny pinching then so be it.

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